Sandra Safari

The Finance Bill 2026 landed in Parliament on April 30, 2026, and if the last few years have taught us anything, it is that the fine print in these documents has a way of showing up on your payslip, your pump price, and your subscription invoice before you have had a chance to read the full bill.

If your Starlink service is currently suspended, it is because of the mandatory ID verification deadline that passed on April 30, 2026. The suspension is not permanent. To restore your service, first update your account details online at starlink.com or through the Starlink app, making absolutely sure your name matches your government ID exactly. Then visit an authorised Starlink retailer in person with your original ID and a phone that has the Starlink app installed. Service is restored after your verification is confirmed, which can take up to one business day.

There is a quiet but growing crisis unfolding on your smartphone's app store. It does not look like a crisis. It looks like a clean UI, a reassuring percentage score, and a confident recommendation. But underneath the polished surface of thousands of new apps lies a troubling reality: a generation of developers with an API key, a system prompt, and very little accountability are building tools that people are trusting with their health.

Not too long ago, gaming in Kenya was considered a rich person's hobby. You needed a PlayStation, an Xbox, or an expensive gaming PC to get in on the action. The culture existed, but it was largely locked behind hardware price tags that made it inaccessible to the average Kenyan. Fast forward to 2026, and the story has completely flipped. Today, all you need is a smartphone, a decent data bundle, and a WhatsApp group link, and you are in the middle of a thriving, self-organised gaming ecosystem that rivals anything the formal esports world has tried to build from the top down.

In the rapidly evolving landscape of 2026, the boundary between human-generated and AI-generated content has become almost entirely imperceptible. As generative models like Google’s Gemini produce images and videos with staggering realism, the tech industry has scrambled to find a "digital fingerprint" that can prove an image's origin without marring its visual beauty. This quest led to the birth of Google DeepMind’s SynthID, a sophisticated, invisible watermarking system designed to label AI creations at the pixel level.

If you have spent any time on a Kenyan news site, a popular app, or any free mobile game recently, you already know the problem. Ads that play before you can read the headline. Trackers quietly logging which apps you open and when. Data being consumed not by the content you wanted but by the advertising infrastructure around it.

The IEBC triggered a minor political storm this week by clarifying that Kenyans who registered as voters before 2012 and never subsequently enrolled in the biometric system must register afresh before the April 28 deadline for the Enhanced Continuous Voter Registration exercise.

The STK Push gets all the attention because it is what users interact with directly, a prompt appears on their phone, they enter their PIN, money moves. But a large class of business problems requires the reverse: your system needs to push money out to a customer's phone without any action on their end. Refunds, loan disbursements, withdrawal payouts, salary payments, promotional cashbacks, marketplace seller payments, all of these are B2C problems.

OnePlus built its reputation on one simple promise: flagship performance at half the flagship price. For a decade it attracted a fiercely loyal community of enthusiast buyers, people who knew what a Snapdragon number meant, who followed spec sheets the way others followed football tables, and who imported devices from overseas because no local retailer stocked what they wanted.

The Communications Authority issued a public notice yesterday ( March 24, 2026) announcing updated Technical Specifications for Mobile Cellular Devices that will govern which phones can legally be sold and used in Kenya going forward. The notice, signed by Director General David Mugonyi, targets ICT equipment vendors, local assemblers, and manufacturers, and arrives one month after the CA banned 21 phone brands outright for failing to meet type approval standards.